Improvement in cooking-stoves



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. WILLIAMSON AND JOHN L. VILLIAMS, OF JESSUP, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Specif cation forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,3] l, dated June 23, 1874 application filed April 11, 1874.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that we, JAMES It. VILLIAM- soN and JOHN L. WILLIAMS, of Jessup, in the county of 'Vayne and State of Georgia, have invented a new and Improved Stove, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents a front elevation of our improved stove Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section on the line o o, Fig. l, Fig. 3, a sectional top view, and Fig. 4 a rear elevation, of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. A

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawing, A represents the outer walls of the stove, which is made of suitable size and material, and supported on xed or removable feet of any approved construction and design. The stoveis divided, by vertical partition -plates B, into compartments, of which the outer ones are arranged as replaces G, with grates, ash-boxes, front dampers, and doors, constructed in the usual manner. The inner compartments are, furthermore, divided, by a horizontal plate, D, into the lower and upper sect-ions, the .lower sections E being used as ovens, and provided with a door, El, hinged so as to swing in horizontal position, to be supported therein by chains or brace-rods E2, of suflicient strength to support the bake-pans thereon. The upper sections F connect, by semicircular or otherwise-shaped recesses a, of the partition-plates B, with the tire-places C, and draw the iiames through the same under the pots placed into apertures of corresponding size in the top plate. The top plate A may be at or formed -with steps, as preferred, the latter shape permitting a greater height of the ovens. The partition-plates B support the top plate and give strength and stability to the whole stove. The stove may be set directly into the chimney, with a suitable screen attached thereto, or used with a casing for smoke-stack and pipe, in the usual manner. The upper or flue sections F are cleaned from soot by a front opening and door, F', above the door of the ovens. A chamber, G, extends below the ovens E, and at the rear part of the same, connecting, by slotted apertures b of partitions B, with the tire-places G, and, by apertures d of the rear wall, with the chimney. Pivoted dainpers G1 serve to open or close apertures I), and admit thereby the iire to heat the ovens or exclude the same, as described. The front door G2 of chamber G closes the same in front, fitting exactly over the han dies of dampers G1, and is held in position by a pivoted latch, c, so that chamber G may easily be cleaned by taking off door G2. The horizontal partition-plate D is arranged with a rear aperture, f, which forms the communication of the flue-section F with the draftopenings d ot thev rear-wall, so that, it' the ovens are used for baking, sufticient heat for enveloping the same from the bottom, sides, and top may be furnished. The rear wall is, furthermore, provided with draft-openings g near the top plate A one for each tire-place* and a central larger one for the main draft under the pots of the top plate. These draftopenings g are opened or closed by dampers I-I, which are operated by damper-rods h, sliding in staples h1 of the rear wall and pivoted crank-rods h2, which extend at the sides and bottom of the stove to the front part thereof.

By turning crank-rods h2 n either direction,

the draft-openings g are opened or closed, so that cooking may be carried on in all the pots and ovens, or in any part thereof, by suitably regulating the dampers II.

l The stove may, in this manner, be used with the greatest facility and convenience for cooking and baking for a slnall or large number of persons, as it is fully within control and equally economical in fuel whether a larger or smaller quantity of pots or ovens are brought into use.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The nre-places C, connecting, by apertures b, with bottom and rear chamber G, in combination with dampers G1, chamber G, and

reml apertures el for regulating zulnlission of pla/ce7 having aperturesv df to enable the heat lle-[Lt to ovens E, as set forth. to be drawn down over the oven if not Wanted 2. The lire-places C, in combination with for the Jfop plate. upper sections F conunuuea-tng with ehim- Y 1 ,7 T ney by top apertures g, regulated by dempers 11,' for suppl ing heat to the top plate A md pots, substantially as speeecl. \Vit11ess0s:

3. The combination described, with ehim- WILLIS GLARY, ney and upper flue-sections, of the partition- J. R. ROBESSOM. 

